Behavior and Intention in MOOCs Research

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10.2991/aiie-16.2016.119How to use a DOI?

Keywords

behavior;intention;MOOCs;acceptance; engagement

Abstract

Although many efforts have been done on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) contexts, how to understand the behavior and intention of individuals is a key issue in MOOCs. This article focuses on a review of both behavior and intention concerning MOOCs from science citation index expanded (SCI-EXPANED) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) database on web of science. Research results indicate that (1) the number of citations on these topics mainly distributes in recent 3 years, reaching climax of 300 in 2015; (2) the main research territory is USA, accounting for 38.4%, then followed by Spain of 11.6% and Canada of 8.7% respectively; (3) the year of published articles distributed between 2013 and 2015; (4) in the view of research area, there are three main areas: educational research, computer science, and library science. Overall, the related research topics can be classified into four aspects: motivation, intention, acceptance and engagement.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Bing Wu
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